On February 22, the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QI) held a virtual dialogue on Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia issues, which was co-chaired by Mr. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, and Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the QI.

The attendees on the Chinese side include: Amb. Wei Wei, Advisor to the CPIFA Council, former Vice President of the CPIFA and former Chinese Ambassador to India; Amb. Gong Xiaosheng, former China’s Special Envoy on the Middle East Issue, former Head of the Representative Office of China to the Palestinian National Authority, former Chinese Ambassador to Jordan and former Ambassador to Turkey; Prof. Hu Shisheng, Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Prof. Niu Xinchun, Member of the CPIFA Council, Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies of the CICIR; Prof. Xu Liping, Member of the CPIFA Council, Head of the Department of Asia-Pacific Social & Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for South East Asian Studies of National Institute of International Strategy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The attendees on the QI side include Mr. Sarang Shidore, Director of Studies, Ms. Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program, as well as three research fellows Dr. Adam Weinstein, Dr. Annelle Sheline and Dr. Ben Freeman.